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API: Disabling inheritance for location does not work

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Hello We plan to batch populate many sites from Group Templates

I am using Powershell to clone a template in which the location is inherited from above then I go through every cloned object to set several properties

In the top cloned group I set the location: Set-PRTGDeviceAttribute $NewGroup.Id location $StringAddressWithSeveralLines The function calls /api/setobjectproperty.htm?id=$deviceID&name=$attribute&value=$value$authenticate

This works (i.e. the address is present in the location field)

Then I disable inheritance Set-PRTGDeviceAttribute $NewGroup.Id location_ 0 It calls the same function: /api/setobjectproperty.htm?id=$deviceID&name=$attribute&value=$value$authenticate

name is location_ and value is 0 (according to the documentation)

This does not work

I tried to disable inheritance first then set the address, tried to use 1 instead 0 after disabling inheritance from the GUI

Nothing works Could you please help?

I have thought of a last option: disable inheritance with an empty address in the template but this would be a bad option as the template may be used for other usages, where inheritance must be enabled

Thank you upfront

api inheritance location

Created on Mar 23, 2018 10:41:12 AM



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Location inheritance is controlled via the locationgroup property

$id = 1001

Invoke-WebRequest http://prtg.example.com/editsettings?id=$id&locationgroup=0&username=prtgadmin&passhash=12345678

Regards, lordmilko

Created on Mar 26, 2018 7:18:07 AM



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Thank you locationgroup was not in the api doc of our server

Created on Mar 26, 2018 7:48:26 AM



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Thanks, @lordmilko! Much appreciated! :)

Kind regards,
Stephan Linke, Tech Support Team

Created on Mar 26, 2018 8:00:31 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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